Rama Srinivasan

Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India

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Produktbeschreibung

Courting Desire traces organically evolving ideas on sexual consent and legal subjectivity through a study of marital patterns in North India. Through research in courtrooms and community spaces, it outlines the processes through which eloping couples secure legal validity for their relationships of choice where family-arranged matches are the norm. 

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Produktdetails

• Politics of Marriage and Gende
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781978803541
• ISBN-10: 1978803540
• Artikelnr.: 56723569

Autorenporträt

RAMA SRINIVASAN holds a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and currently pens articles on gender and sexuality, politics, cinema and popular culture, law and society, and immigration and diaspora issues. She lives in Frankfurt, Germany. From May 2020, she will be a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India         
         
Part 1. Localizing Marriage
1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea
2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens
3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World
Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North
India
4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions
5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 
6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity
Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future
7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social
Mobility
Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After?
Acknowledgments
Appendix